UMBC AgentNews v5n19                        Mon May 29 00:14:59 2000
The past seven days of news from AgentWeb (http://agents.umbc.edu/).
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                           till you have tried to make it precise."  
                                                -- Bertrand Russell


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The 18th FIPA meeting, which will be held 17-21 July 2000 at UMBC, is
free and open to FIPA members and interested non-members who are
willing to actively contribute to the FIPA process of developing
standards for agent technology. (5/21) 
http://agents.umbc.edu/fipa/18/

Judge Says a Spider Is Trespassing on EBay -- NYT article on the recent
temporary ruling in which a federal judge relied upon the ancient law
of trespass to temporarily stop an Internet company from using a
software robot or spider that "crawls" through another company's Web
site, extracting and copying information. (5/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/cyberlaw/26law.html

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USC/ISI is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow to study mathematical
modeling of agent-based systems.  Our interest is in understanding,
behavior in a group of software and embodied agents. (5/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.isi.edu/~lerman/projects/task/postdoc.html

Download a version of Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet, which uses
Markov models to imitate the word and structure choices of famous
poets from a vast array of eras and styles, including Virgil, Blake,
Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, and Poe. (5/29)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/

National Research Council, LADSEB-CNR Padova, Italy, has several
positions to fill involving the engineering of ontologies for
applications. (recommended by paulmac@jhuapl.edu (5/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/ontology/positions.html

Todd Papaioannou, Mobile Information Agents in Cyberspace: State of
the Art and Visions, Proc. of Cooperating Information Agents
(CIA-2000), 2000. (5/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.luckyspin.org/Docs/Papers/cia-2000.ps

Andrzej Bieszczad, Pratik Biswas, Walter Buga, Manu Malek, and Hai
Tan, Management of Heterogeneous Networks with Intelligent Agents,
Bell Labs technical Journal, v4n4, Oct-Dec 1999.  "The studies
conducted thus far in our ongoing work on a Lucent-grown agent
platform, the Lucent Intelligent Network Agent (LucINA), and its
applications indicate that intelligent agents constitute an attractive
technology to address these issues. Agents communicate at a high level
of abstraction using an agent communication language (ACL). The
language provides a universal wrapper for specific content and a
capability to negotiate communication means including language,
protocol, and domain terminology (ontology) -- a characteristic very
desirable in heterogeneous, multivendor environments."  (recommended
by apiszcz@mitre.org). (5/28)
http://agents.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/raw?url=http://www.lucent.com/minds/techjournal/oct-dec1999/pdf/paper07.pdf

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